Ghost Dance

English

Proper noun

Ghost Dance

1. A 19th-century religious movement, incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems, according to which performing a dance would reunite the living with spirits of the dead and bring prosperity and unity to native peoples.
   • 1973 March 4, John Kifner, “The Ghosts Dance Once Again at Wounded Knee”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     In the fall of 1890, a new religious fever, “Ghost Dancing,” spread among the Indian tribes pushed to the far edge of the prairies by broken treaties and the advance of the white man. Their religion held that floods would come, destroying, the whites. And then, game would return; dead Indians would be resurrected, and living Indians would be protected from all harm by wearing painted ghost shirts and performing the special dance.

   • 2019 December 5, Julian Brave NoiseCat, “Perhaps the World Ends Here: The coming battle over space”, in Harper's Magazine‎^[2], →ISSN:

     In life, many of the Army’s victims were the followers of the Ghost Dance, a nineteenth-century faith that originated with a vision, delivered, it was said, by God to the Paiute messiah Jack Wilson, more commonly known as Wovoka.

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: henkitanssi
• German: Geistertanz m

Noun

Ghost Dance (plural Ghost Dances)

1. Alternative letter-case form of ghost dance